Hey Mick - if you are "The Mick" to whom I lost a VASL tournament game a few weeks back - nice to be in touch again. That was a fun game.
I think you are overinterpreting my statement. It is true that, as an atheist, I do not believe that Klas or JRV - or Perry for that matter - is a god. But all three are pretty damn close regarding ASL rules, and might even do a better job as god than any invisible competitor to the title in any other matter such as Covid or world peace. So when Klas says "No" I would say that there is a 99% chance Perry would agree (Klas and JRV tend to hedge their answers if they are not absolutely sure and Klas' hedge this time was indeed 99%
). Asking Perry is therefore probably a waste of time. Better would be to get the owner of Gamesquad to get on his bare knees begging JRV to come back so that the value of this particular forum goes back to 100% (uups - will this get me censored
?).
As for me - I have always played it with no cowering of inexperienced squads when there is a leader present. But that is just me, and I am not in the 99% league (yet)
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Small anecdote: I have played JRV once - at ASLOK 3 years ago. When my opponent moves I sometime say "You are good" to indicate that I am not shooting. Most opponents then move their unit one more hex. Not JRV - he answered "I know"
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